February 2013 - Inkscape Devel

Launchpad Inkscape Bug Team subscription
by Nicolas Dufour 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

Hi, As you may have noticed if your in the Launchpad Inkscape bug team, the flow of notifications has dramatically decreased recently. Instead of sending notifications whatever happens in the reports, the LP bug system limited the notifications to new and closed bug. I first thought it was due to a new LP feature, reset with new default values, but it finally seems it was changed by someone in the Inkscape administrators team. I understand there are too many notifications for developers, but bug managers need everything to appropriately triage the reports. For now, the settings have been reset with the previous values (notify everything, including comments) for the bug team (LP subscription page: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+subscriptions). If needed, we have the possibility to subscribe the Inkscape Developers team to the bug system, with limited notifications (new and closed only, or filter based), or a new specific team if we don't want to reuse the developers team. The debate is open. Regards, -- Nicolas

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Image resampling [PATCH 0/6]
by Krzysztof Kosiński 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

2012/11/24 Søren Sandmann <sandmann@...2931...>: > Hi, > > Reviewing the supersampling patch here: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ajohnson/pixman/log/?h=supersampling > > I wasn't happy with either the performance and image quality, and I > realized that the whole supersampling approach just isn't going to > fly. Since I told people to do it that way, I apologize for that. The > approach advocated by Bill Spitzak in the various downsampling threads > of computing a convolution kernel up front, is the much better way to > go. To make up for being misleading, the following patches implement > comprehensive support for high-quality image scaling filters. This is extremely awesome. Regards, Krzysztof

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bug tested, ready to commit.. please review
by insaner 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

hey guys, as this is my first commit, i wanted to run it by you before i do. this is the bug in question: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1098416 this is the command i will run (after cd'ing into the "inkscape" dir that contains the src dir): bzr commit --fixes lp:1098416 --message="adding dockbar/switcher style toggles in prefs ui" src/ui/dialog/inkscape-preferences.h src/ui/dialog/inkscape-preferences.cpp is all of this ok? as a separate note, can i get some of you to check https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1092313 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1062134 and provide some feedback so i can commit soon? thanks, and its great to be able to contribute to such a great project! -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.n6.nabble.com/bug-tested-ready-to-commit-please-review-t… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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ScalarUnit text input signalling, need help
by vaifrax 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

hello, I'm working on a customizable ruler coordinate system (see bug #170049: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170049 ) and struggle with how to correctly use the gui elements in the document properties. I use ScalarUnit as number inputs. Clicking on up and down buttons works, but when entering numbers via keyboard nothing happens. I have not directly used signals but maybe I need to? I also uploaded the code on launchpad: https://code.launchpad.net/~vaifrax/inkscape/bugfix170049 <https://code.launchpad.net/%7Evaifrax/inkscape/bugfix170049> I'd appreciate a hint on how to (best) make keyboard input trigger the value change. Thanks

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Android tablet as drawing input
by Jon Cruz 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

Hey Inkscapers, check this out http://www.gimpusers.com/news/00462-use-android-tablet-as-graphics-tablet-w… A simple use of an android tablet to feed as an extended X input device for drawing in Linux. Needs the X11 driver part to feed the data from the Android device to the X11 system, but from there it should end up working for all apps, including Inkscape. This is overlapping an area I was working at from the other direction, but should be easy for me to hook up to from Inkscape directly. My talk at LCA 2013 is going to be on that input work (using wiimotes, guitars, gamepads, etc.) and once I get to the point of reading in drawing data (in addition to current use as keys and pressure modifiers) using that should be very simple and avoid the need for any X11 drivers. Oh, and from what I see of the protocol, it should end up working cross-platform.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Font-family drop-down menu change.
by ~suv 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

Forwarding Vlada's reply to the list … On 2013-02-09 15:33 +0100, Vladimir Savic wrote: > On 02/09/2013 01:00 PM, ~suv wrote: > >> @Vlada - IIRC you just recently (2013-02-04) reported launch times of 40 >> or more seconds: did you notice any difference with the most recent >> builds since then (revision >= 12105)? > > Revisions <12112 time: > real 0m37.590s > user 0m37.110s > sys 0m0.180s > > Revision 12112 time: > real 0m45.933s > user 0m39.158s > sys 0m0.392s > > (I've measured startup time a few times and took what is closest to mean > value) > > For comparison purposes Scribus gives me: > real 0m9.725s > user 0m6.552s > sys 0m0.508s > and yet there I have to manually close Welcome (New document) dialog and > hit Close application icon.

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BSpline branch renamed. New branch for 0.48 Series
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

Hi to all. The name for the banch BSpline is changed to be more precise. They are Based in 0.48-x (Now) lp:~jabiertxof/inkscape/BSpline+SpiroLive-0.48.x Based in 0.49-x (Devel) lp:~jabiertxof/inkscape/BSpline+SpiroLive-0.49.x We can find here: https://code.launchpad.net/~jabiertxof

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0.49 release..?
by Dave Crossland 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Hi! Sorry if I missed this elsewhere, but I wonder what the status is for a 0.49 release? :-) -- Cheers Dave

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New extensions Eraser layer and Filter Layer.
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Added to inkscape resouces forum this two new extension. Eraser layer: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=13493 Filter Layer: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=13495 In other words. Im waiting for feedback/errors about BSpline+SpiroLive Branch. To prepare the translations file and propose for merge. https://code.launchpad.net/~jabiertxof Hi, Jabier.

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Mac OSX 0.48.4 RC4
by Valerio Aimale 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

RC is out: Mtn Lion: http://rapidshare.com/files/2972309189/Inkscape-r0.48.4-r9943-10.8%2B-x86_6… Lion: http://rapidshare.com/files/2284187099/Inkscape-r0.48.4-r9943-10.7%2B-x86_6… Fixed: a) problems with keyboard: It's not really a bug. Mac OS X, for reason that evidently were valid when NeXT Step OS was designed, dispatches event to menus at a higher priority than keyboard event processor. So the menu with accelerators "sucks up" the event before it even reaches the GDK (or any other event processor) delegation system. If there are accelerators that overlap with key events , without modifers, they won't be prcessed as regular keyboard events, but as menu accelerator (the 'g' that triggers "Toolgradient" being a good example) . The fix is to modify mac.xml such that all those accelerators that overlap with simple key events are removed. I've done so. I've fixed all cases I was able to find. Let me know if you run into more. b) clipboard exchange with GIMP. The problem is really with GIMP, not Inkscape. Given that GIMP uses the unpatched gtk2+quartz library, it can only import TIFF images from the clipboard. TIFF is not mentioned in the Inkscape Info.plist, thus Inkscape does not export TIFF format to the clipboard. I've modified Info.plist , so now Inkscape and GIMP can talk via TIFF - Inkscape now exports TIFF (among a host of other formats, to the clipboard). Valerio

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